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Even aides of President Francisco Costa Gomes acknowledged privately that the Communist-leaning Gonçalves had been irredeemably discredited. In the course of a 2½-hour meeting at Belem Palace, Costa Gomes reportedly asked Socialist Leader Mário Soares for a six weeks' grace period to arrange Gonçalves' resignation and restore political parties to representation in the government. Soares rejected the proposal. Soon afterward, he was backed by 7,000 Socialists who marched on Belem Palace shouting "Vasco must resign...
...manifesto flatly rejected as a model for Portugal a "socialist society of the East European type." Yet it warned that the country "will be fatally led" to precisely that model unless it rids itself of "a political leadership that obstinately believes that a vanguard with a very narrow social basis can make the revolution on behalf of all the people." This cannot be achieved, the document went on, "with the present leadership team, in view of its lack of credibility and manifest inability to govern...
...whole idea were a Western concoction. "There never was any such thing as 'the Brezhnev Doctrine,' " a Soviet official said recently with a perfectly straight face. "Such talk was a propaganda fabrication by the bourgeois capitalist press." When pressed, however, Soviet officials concede that "Socialist Internationalism"-the principle that the Soviet Union has the right to come to the rescue of socialist states abroad-is still very much in force...
Doctorow, who teaches at Sarah Lawrence, is one of the most political of novelists. I would hazard that he is a socialist, a leftist anyway, and that he is troubled by the leaping, bursting, delicate hope this vision holds, and how hard it is to harbor this hope without it breaking or your breaking into cycnicism. He is concerned with more than survival, with survival not being enough, which is refreshing after more indulgent writers. His first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, is set in a grim prairie expanse in the west, a badland blowing as cold and vacant...
Kanellopoulos' testimony undermined the charge of insurrection. But the accusations of high treason-for acting against the national interest-will probably be strengthened next week when Andreas Papandreou, head of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, will reportedly name CIA officials as the colonels' coconspirators. The maximum penalty for high treason is life imprisonment, but the junta leaders are expected to get off with lighter sentences. Although extremists have called for retributive justice, most Greeks merely wish to see them judged under...